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Month: August 2004

Hmm… I’ve (like many others) been getting messages from various “banks” and “credit card” services that try to get me to fill a survey because of all of the resent frauds. We’ll, today I finally took a closer look at the URL where the survey is supposed to be. While the URL looks like http://www.mastercard.com/cgi-bin/emergserv.cgi?… even in Thunderbird, the real URL is http://61.197.191.122/%20/www.mastercard.com/certegy_mc/… You can see the real URL by pointing your mouse over the link and looking at the status bar, as usual. Trying to access the page with Firefox results in a connection refused and the address bar shows the real URL. So, without a test with Internet Explorer, I’d presume that the “survey” only works with IE as the URL will only look like a valid Mastercard URL in it. Once again, I am grateful that IE isn’t even available on Linux.

Just after starting to write the previous entry I noticed Eric’s reaction to being blamed as heavily anti-IE. Luckily the person initially blaming Eric and Zeldman does appear to understand part of the point that they are trying to make.

Had an interesting morning fixing layout bugs in IE again. Yesterday, before I left work I fixed our intranet site to use floats instead of absolute positioning. IE had its own share of bugs, but that was to be expected.

I recently updated the firmware on my work phone. It isn’t that first time I’ve done it and it won’t be the last. And it seems like I face the same problems and issues every time. Well, not quite so. In the following I’ll walk through how things have changed since my first firmware update in 1998 (to a Nokia 8110i).